{"id":231771,"date":"2025-09-08T14:21:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=231771"},"modified":"2025-09-08T17:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T21:37:45","slug":"fight-breaks-out-at-east-cobb-waffle-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=231771","title":{"rendered":"Waffle House Fight in Cobb County: What We Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cobb County Police officers responded to reports of a fight in progress at the Waffle House on Sandy Plains Road<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to witnesses, a group of teenagers had been asked to leave the restaurant several times but refused. The situation escalated when the teens began arguing with staff, knocking plates from the counter, and jumping over the service area into the kitchen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One victim was placed in a headlock and struck multiple times in the head. Several patrons attempted to intervene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A video of the altercation, which has circulated on social media, alleges the group had attended Sprayberry High School\u2019s homecoming game. However, this incident occurred early Sunday morning, September 7th , while the game took place Friday night, September 5th. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this time, no direct connection that these suspects are current, or former Sprayberry High School students has been confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investigation remains active. Detectives are working to identify all individuals involved. Anyone with information is urged to contact the Cobb County Police Department\u2019s Criminal Investigations Unit at (770) 499-4184<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-yoast-seo-related-links yoast-seo-related-links\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/crime\/brookhaven-burglary-escalates-to-gunfire-high-speed-chase-and-police-shooting\/\">Brookhaven Burglary Escalates to Gunfire, High-Speed Chase, and Police Shooting<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/crime\/22-year-old-shot-and-killed-during-bibb-county-apartment-altercation\/\">22-year-old shot and killed during Bibb County apartment altercation<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/crime\/24-year-old-woman-charged-with-assaulting-macon-man\/\">24-year-old woman charged with assaulting Macon man<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/crime\/police-one-dead-one-injured-after-altercation-in-grayson-parking-lot\/\">Police: One Dead, One Injured After Altercation in Grayson Parking Lot<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/crime\/early-morning-dispute-leads-to-shooting-outside-dekalb-county-waffle-house\/\">Early Morning Dispute Leads to Shooting Outside DeKalb County Waffle House<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=45]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cobb County Police officers responded to reports of a fight in progress at the Waffle House on Sandy Plains Road. According to witnesses, a group of teenagers had been asked to leave the restaurant several times but refused. The situation escalated when the teens began arguing with staff, knocking plates from the counter, and jumping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":148583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"behind","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[10870],"class_list":["post-231771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-waffle-house","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}